F:/ refers to a location that is unavailable

In Windows explorer

Local Disk (F

F:\ refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a different location.

How do I get rid of this error ?

Andy,

How do I get rid of this error ?

You only gave us the error mesage (which is more than some give!), but have
not told us if that F:\ is a drive on your computer or not, or if you ever
had an F: drive available on your computer (and removed it perhaps).

If not, did maybe anything special happen that caused that F: drive to
appear ?

In short: Give us as much info possibly related to that drive/its sudden(?)
appearance as you can.

Also, does it appear in your "windows explorer" (file browser) window ? If
it does, does it look different there, possibly indicating a network
(remote) drive ? If so, you could try to right-click it and
disconnect/remove it.
In a command window/DOS box you could try the "net use" command.

Hope that helps,
Rudy Wieser


-- Origional message:
Andy schreef in berichtnieuws
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In Windows explorer

Local Disk (F

F:\ refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on
this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure disk is properly
inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and
then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have
been moved to a different location.

How do I get rid of this error ?

Andy wrote:
In Windows explorer

Local Disk (F

F:\ refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a different location.

How do I get rid of this error ?

Generally, the computer is pretty good
at keeping track of conventional storage
devices.

Where it screws up, is if you have a mapped
network drive - in that case, a defunct letter
might throw up that error, because the mapped
drive is no longer present.

Think carefully about what you did with your
Windows File Shares, and whether you ever
ticked a box that said to "connect it every
time I boot the computer". It would be
the attempts to make permanent network
mounts, that could throw up the error.

Another place of contention in the file system,
is the assignment of mapped network drives, and the
usage of USB sticks. They can "overlap" on letters,
leading to surprises. That's not your current
problem. Uwe has USBDLM for such things (sorting
it out).

All my network mounts are temporary, so
I never see your error. I don't even know how
to make a mapped drive :-) But I did use a
SUBST once, to get around a path length problem.
That's as close to adventurous as I get.

http://www.vfrazee.com/ms-dos/6.22/help/subst.htm

Paul

On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 3:00:35 PM UTC-6, R.Wieser wrote:
Andy,

How do I get rid of this error ?

You only gave us the error mesage (which is more than some give!), but have
not told us if that F:\ is a drive on your computer or not, or if you ever
had an F: drive available on your computer (and removed it perhaps).

If not, did maybe anything special happen that caused that F: drive to
appear ?

In short: Give us as much info possibly related to that drive/its sudden(?)
appearance as you can.

Also, does it appear in your "windows explorer" (file browser) window ? If
it does, does it look different there, possibly indicating a network
(remote) drive ? If so, you could try to right-click it and
disconnect/remove it.
In a command window/DOS box you could try the "net use" command.

Hope that helps,
Rudy Wieser


-- Origional message:
Andy schreef in berichtnieuws
...
In Windows explorer

Local Disk (F

F:\ refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on
this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure disk is properly
inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and
then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have
been moved to a different location.

How do I get rid of this error ?

F: is not a current job, but it was at one time.

The problem happened right after an abort Linux installation.

In Windows explorer, the F: icon has a question mark.

I tried chkdsk /f and chkdsk /r with no luck.

In my Linux installation, my external drive is now read only.

I can not copy or move any files to it.

Which makes it impossible for me to back up my files, images, etc.

I cannot remove it by right clicking.

I will look up how to use the net use command.

Andy

Andy

On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 08:37:33 -0800 (PST), Andy
wrote:

In Windows explorer

Local Disk (F

F:\ refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a different location.

How do I get rid of this error ?

Find out which program you have that is looking for F:
Hope it is not a trojan.

How would I find that out ?

Doubt it is a trojan.

Have same problem in Linux and I know it is not infected.

On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 5:32:36 PM UTC-6, Andy wrote:
How would I find that out ?

Doubt it is a trojan.

Have same problem in Linux and I know it is not infected.

Till I can get this resolved, I wrote this batch file.

It copies the file but an older version.

Where it is coming from is a mystery ?

That file is no where on my hard drive ?

:: Tahr_Pup.BAT BACKUP FILES
::
@ECHO OFF
CLS
cd\
cd j:
cd J:\root\.mozilla\seamonkey\jikt3e07.default
xcopy /y bookmarks.html E:\Linux_Files

Andy

On 03 Feb 2016, Paul wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

All my network mounts are temporary, so
I never see your error. I don't even know how
to make a mapped drive :-)

At its simplest, at the command line type:

NET USE [device letter, e.g. F:] [\\computername\sharename]

To release the mapped drive, something like:

NET USE F: /DELETE

Type NET HELP USE at the command line to see all options.

On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 19:57:13 -0500, Nil
wrote:

On 03 Feb 2016, Paul wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

All my network mounts are temporary, so
I never see your error. I don't even know how
to make a mapped drive :-)

At its simplest, at the command line type:

NET USE [device letter, e.g. F:] [\\computername\sharename]

To release the mapped drive, something like:

NET USE F: /DELETE

Type NET HELP USE at the command line to see all options.

I suppose you could just plug in thumb drives until you got to F: ;-)

I have an F: and thumb drives start at L:

wrote:
On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 19:57:13 -0500, Nil
wrote:

On 03 Feb 2016, Paul wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

All my network mounts are temporary, so
I never see your error. I don't even know how
to make a mapped drive :-)
At its simplest, at the command line type:

NET USE [device letter, e.g. F:] [\\computername\sharename]

To release the mapped drive, something like:

NET USE F: /DELETE

Type NET HELP USE at the command line to see all options.

I suppose you could just plug in thumb drives until you got to F: ;-)

I have an F: and thumb drives start at L:

You have a USB card reader...

Paul

On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 7:25:58 PM UTC-6, Paul wrote:
wrote:
On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 19:57:13 -0500, Nil
wrote:

On 03 Feb 2016, Paul wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

All my network mounts are temporary, so
I never see your error. I don't even know how
to make a mapped drive :-)
At its simplest, at the command line type:

NET USE [device letter, e.g. F:] [\\computername\sharename]

To release the mapped drive, something like:

NET USE F: /DELETE

Type NET HELP USE at the command line to see all options.

I suppose you could just plug in thumb drives until you got to F: ;-)

I have an F: and thumb drives start at L:

You have a USB card reader...

Paul

Not familiar with what that is.

Andy

On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 6:57:19 PM UTC-6, Nil wrote:
On 03 Feb 2016, Paul wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

All my network mounts are temporary, so
I never see your error. I don't even know how
to make a mapped drive :-)

At its simplest, at the command line type:

NET USE [device letter, e.g. F:] [\\computername\sharename]

To release the mapped drive, something like:

NET USE F: /DELETE

Type NET HELP USE at the command line to see all options.

Thanks Nil.

I will try it.

On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 10:37:40 AM UTC-6, Andy wrote:
In Windows explorer

Local Disk (F

F:\ refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a different location.

How do I get rid of this error ?

On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 9:17:22 PM UTC-6, Andy wrote:
On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 6:57:19 PM UTC-6, Nil wrote:
On 03 Feb 2016, Paul wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

All my network mounts are temporary, so
I never see your error. I don't even know how
to make a mapped drive :-)

At its simplest, at the command line type:

NET USE [device letter, e.g. F:] [\\computername\sharename]

To release the mapped drive, something like:

NET USE F: /DELETE

Type NET HELP USE at the command line to see all options.

Thanks Nil.

I will try it.

I got

The network connection could not be found.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2250

On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 10:14:02 PM UTC-6, Andy wrote:
On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 9:17:22 PM UTC-6, Andy wrote:
On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 6:57:19 PM UTC-6, Nil wrote:
On 03 Feb 2016, Paul wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

All my network mounts are temporary, so
I never see your error. I don't even know how
to make a mapped drive :-)

At its simplest, at the command line type:

NET USE [device letter, e.g. F:] [\\computername\sharename]

To release the mapped drive, something like:

NET USE F: /DELETE

Type NET HELP USE at the command line to see all options.

Thanks Nil.

I will try it.

I got

The network connection could not be found.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2250

For some reason, my phantom drive has disappeared.
:-)

Thanks for all the responses.

Andy